eden speaker question

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Flailing up a storm.
I picked up a 1 x 10 cab with a Eden EC 1060XL speaker for $10 the other day.

THe cab was obviously homemade and didn't look all that impressive, but i figured that the harware on it alone was worth the ten bucks.

Anyway, i just googled the speaker and it seems to be used in a 4x10 bass cab most of the time. Anyone know these speakers? Any reason to think it would sound decent with guitar?

Thanks for all input.

Daav
 
I'm gonna bump ya just because I'm interested in knowing more about speakers used in guitar cabs that aren't 12 inchers.

I've heard of guys using 10's and I've seen 8" speakers marketed for the same but I've never seen either. I'm interested in the application and knowing more about some of these smaller speakers.


so,....BUMP!
 
OK resurrecting this with a new question.
Shortly after posting the above i plugged my little fender bronco's speaker out into this speaker and it sounded pretty good. I went through the effort to get it mounted in my iso cabinet to start recording and then started to winder about impedance. The peaker is labelled as 4 ohms. After reading about 15 threads on impedance matching, i came to learn (assuming i read correctly) i learned that, for an amps rating, you can go higher on the speaker imp, but you should not go lower, especially for tube amps.

My primary amp is a fender blues deluxe, which only seems to be rated for 8 ohms, the bronco is also 8 ohms, but i guess that solid states are less vulnerable to blowing up with wrong impedance than tubed ones. So anyway, wondering a couple things:
Does anyone know in some way thqat i don't, if he blues deluxe would be fine with a 4ohm speaker, and it just doesn;thavppen to be labeled as 4 or 8 ohm?
Anything i can do fairly simpley to make the impedance work out correctly? I gues sif i got another 4 ohm speaker it wold work, but it woldn't fit itn he iso box and i don't want to do that.

Short of that, anyone want to buy a really nice Eden Speaker ?

Daav
 
I've always ran amps of any sort into 4 ohm loads with no worries ..... never had a problem. 2 ohms is another story. The thing with tube amps is that they are most efficient when the tap matches the load. But it doesn't absolutely mean death to the amp to run it into a bit lower load. The thing is that the amp'll put out more into a lower load and if it puts out enough, the power supply might not be able to keep up and, worst case, you can blow something in the power supply.
If you run that amp wide open ..... then I'd stay away from a 4 ohm load. But if you're just talking plugging it in at the house to see what it'll sound like ...... then no way it's gonna blow anything. I'd just be wary of running the amp cranked up into a 4 ohm load.
Also, I'd go to Fenders website and look up specs on that amp. You might find ratings of power at 4 ohms even if it doesn't say so on the chassis in which case you're good to go.

BTW .... I don't own that amp and I'm not a Fender rep ............... but I do have 40 years of running dozens and dozens of different tube amps into various speakers and I've never had a single problem.
Truthfully, I personally don't worry about 2 ohm loads but I know amps well enough to be able to tell when they're straining to keep up ......... I don't reccomend 2 ohms for anyone else ....... but the 4 ohms shouldn't be a problem unless you crank it.
 
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